Example sentences of "there [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 2 | On the doormat , there were a few late Christmas cards plus the inevitable letter from the bank , but no offers of job interviews . |
| 3 | ‘ There were a lot of problems with the welfare state , ’ I said , ‘ but that was no reason for trying to do away with it . ’ |
| 4 | Moreover , in his third year , in which he read modern , European and American drama , there were a further 44 works from 20 authors not included in the above list ; some in French ! |
| 5 | For some reason this inspires the barman to tell me there were a lot of good boxers in the 1980s because they were hungry . |
| 6 | There were a few villages in the lower hills and , further up , small groups of round mud-huts , each housing a couple of families , were dotted across the fields . |
| 7 | There were a numbers of factors which pointed strongly in favour of Ohio as the more appropriate forum for the trial of the disputes . |
| 8 | Because , even if there were a scholarship scheme , it would not be enough . |
| 9 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 10 | There were a lot of policemen in surrounding streets and in the park adjoining the embassy from which the refugees have clambered into the grounds . |
| 11 | ‘ What if there were a drug , ’ he asks , ‘ that could induce feelings of upper middle-classness ? ’ |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock would be in Downing Street with an overall majority of 28 seats if there were a general election tomorrow , according to a Mori aggregate poll in The Times , which surveyed more than 7,500 people over three months . |
| 13 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 14 | ‘ We tried to fit together the enigmas , of which there were a number . |
| 15 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 16 | The constables were keen to display to the field-worker that they knew the appropriate law to apply and that the law gave formal justification to their decisions , but there were a variety of other factors which facilitated this sensitive interpretation of the law . |
| 17 | There were a few cows in the field and they were wandering in the direction of the sniper 's position . |
| 18 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 19 | If there were a huge demand for a quality left-wing paper then sales of the Guardian would increase sharply and ( less certainly ) an enterprising businessman might provide another left-wing alternative . |
| 20 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 21 | If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement . |
| 22 | There were a few dark places my parents liked to go into besides under their covers in bed . |
| 23 | I was at the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , as an assistant manager , and there were a hundred and twenty-two on the staff . |
| 24 | There were a lot of French-Canadian soldiers stationed in the area , together with British and Americans , and a weekly film show was put on for all-comers in the Methodist chapel on Saturday nights . |
| 25 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 26 | There were a further ten independents and five MPs who owed allegiance to Sir Oswald Mosley 's short-lived New party , formed after Mosley 's defection from Labour in February 1931 . |
| 27 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 28 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 29 | There were a number of other members of the family on the board . |
| 30 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |